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This morning I’m thinking about something I heard this week: ‘We were made to crave.’ It makes sense when I think about what I’ve done to fill the void in me. Why make me so full of desires, God? To crave you, right? To allow you to fill that deepest part of me that needs to belong and be affirmed.

Jesus, you told us how…

‘Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.’ Matthew 6:33-34

So what’s up with all that stuff that trips us up so often? Imagine a guy crawling through a desert, dying of thirst. Next to him is a great oasis full of fresh, cool water. But he won’t go there! Instead, he scratches at the sand seeking moisture.

Crazy, right?

Except that’s what we do when we seek to satisfy our deep desires for things like intimacy in broken places.

How much of the sexual sin so many people reading WordSpace said they struggle with is because we try satisfy our longing for physical intimacy in things like porn or fantasy or hooking up or …?

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